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Hanna Doose @hadoose.bsky.social · 1d

Read open access in Competition & Change: journals.sagepub.com/doi/epub/10....

The Scottish road to net zero: Corporate welfare and assetization cascades

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Hanna Doose @hadoose.bsky.social · 1d

🚨New Article Out! “The Scottish Road to Net Zero: Corporate Welfare and Assetization Cascades”

The article focuses on the evolution of the land-based natural capital market in Scotland in light of the country's net zero efforts.

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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 9d

And if you’re interested in dependent development, you’ll love the recent special issue published by @compchange.bsky.social (and guest edited by @aritassinari.bsky.social, @fbulfone.bsky.social, and Aldo Madariaga)

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Sidney Rothstein @sidneyrothstein.bsky.social · 9d

Out now in Competition & Change
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“Dependent development in digital
capitalism: The politics of startup
policies in the new periphery”

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#polisky
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first page of "Dependent development in digital capitalism: The politics of startup policies in the new periphery." abstract: As digital technology’s economic importance increases, policymakers pivot to supporting startups – new, small, high-risk firms that produce technological innovation. Tracing the passage of startup policies in Brazil and Spain between 2014 – 2022, this article argues that startup policies do little to reduce peripheral countries’ dependence on the core. In each case, startups advocated for these policies by relying on financial and organizational resources from the giant US-based technology firms known as “Big Tech.” The article makes three contributions to the framework of dependent development. First, it reinforces existing observations that dependence on Big Tech extends beyond the Global South. Second, it revives political analysis of dependency, exploring the political conditions for economic development in the periphery. Lastly, it shows how startups’ political dependence on Big Tech implies important limits on startups’ ability to lead peripheral economies out of dependence on the core.

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Jasper Blom @jasprblom.bsky.social · Aug 16

nice to see our climate litigation against ING has not gone unnoticed in this interesting review of CSO campaigns against banks (p.4) - too bad the article focuses on reputational issues without taking account of other impacts of campaigns journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Civil society versus banks: Bottom-up pressure in sustainable finance - Roy Gava, 2025

Banks worldwide are increasingly under the scrutiny of CSOs (Civil Society Organizations). This bottom-up pressure remains overlooked in the rapidly expanding l...

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M. Kerem Coban @mkeremcoban.bsky.social · Aug 6

♨️Hot off the press

The 3⃣rd article of our SI (w/ @elsaclaramassoc.bsky.social) on the Transformation of Banking @Competition is online

Fulya Apaydin, Dora Piroska & I study the various ways in which authoritarian leaders instrumentalise the banking sector 👇

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Philipp Köncke @philippkoencke.bsky.social · Jul 30

🚨 New publication out: “The Anatomy of Chinese Capitalism” (Competition & Change / Köncke, Erlbacher & Schmalz, 2025)

How and to what extent does the party-state govern top Chinese firms?

We unpack this with new data and a sectoral lens.
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Sage Journals: Discover world-class research

Subscription and open access journals from Sage, the world's leading independent academic publisher.

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Anissa Bougrea @anissabougrea.bsky.social · Jul 29

🚨New article out with @mattvermeir.bsky.social in @compchange.bsky.social: "Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? MDBs & the Trilemma of Private Capital Mobilization"
We examine why MDBs are failing to deliver on the promise of "mobilizing trillions" for the SDGs👇
Here:

Rolling out the Wall Street Consensus? Multilateral development banks and the trilemma of private capital mobilization - Anissa Bougrea, Mattias Vermeiren, 2025

This article offers the first comprehensive account of the challenges Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) face in implementing the Wall Street Consensus, a fi...

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compchange.bsky.social @compchange.bsky.social · Jul 18

We are delighted, too. Thanks to the guest editors @fbulfone.bsky.social, Aldo Madariaga & @aritassinari.bsky.social, and to all contributors. Check out the contents of vol. 29 issue 3-4 here: journals.sagepub.com/toc/CCH/curr...

Arianna Tassinari @aritassinari.bsky.social · Jul 18

We are delighted that our Special Issue on "The Politics of Growth, Stagnation and Upgrading in Peripheral Economies" coedited w/ @fbulfone.bsky.social & Aldo Madariaga is now out in Competition & Change @compchange.bsky.social, Vol. 29(3–4).
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compchange.bsky.social @compchange.bsky.social · Jun 19

Hello! 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐞𝐭𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 & 𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐠𝐞 has joined Bsky. We'll be sharing new articles and other journal-related updates.

To start, excellent news: Our 2024 impact factor is up four points: 3.4.

This reflects the high-quality work of our authors, reviewers, and editors—thank you, and keep them coming! 🙏

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